Top NZ Wines of 2025 - 96 Points OUTSTANDING by Cameron Douglas MS Highest Equal Scoring NZ Pinot Noir 2023...
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Description
Top NZ Wines of 2025 - 96 Points OUTSTANDING by Cameron Douglas MS
Highest Equal Scoring NZ Pinot Noir 2023 - 18 Points by Julia Harding MW Jancisrobinson.com
"Light bricky red. Seductive aroma that is both savoury and sweet-fruited but without the candied fruit sweetness of some Marlborough Pinots. Fragrant with senescent red fruits, so inviting - the aroma is worth lingering over. A touch of spice from the oak but mostly this is about the fruit and that tine savoury quality of the best burgundies but with a touch of New Zealand's vibrant character from the combination of sunshine and cool temperatures. It has the freshness of part whole bunches but no obvious stemminess. Silky, deft tannins, excellent freshness and already in perfect harmony. Sophisticated NZ Pinot Noir that evolves in the glass. Delicious now but should have a long life ahead."
Description
Single Vineyard: Upton Downs Vineyard
Subregion: Upper Awatere | Awatere Valley
Region: Marlborough
Soil Type: Uplifted sedimentary loess and gravels over clay
Clone: 100% Clone 777
Viticulture: Sustainable New Zealand Winegrowing (SWNZ)
Growers: Tahi & Olivia Doonan
The Upton Downs vineyard delivers a Pinot Noir of beguiling poise and perfume, born of high-altitude exposure, a cool dry microclimate and the layered, complex soils of the Upper Awatere. The bouquet opens with lifted violet and wild red berry aromas threaded with rose petal and subtle forest floor. On the palate it is elegant yet firmly structured, where silky tannins and bright acidity frame concentrated cherry, pomegranate and savoury spice, while careful whole-bunch inclusion add lift and tensile energy. The finish is long, mineral and compelling, promising early pleasure and confident age worthiness.
Unfined | Unfiltered
Product Info
Closure: Screwcap
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Brand: Blank Canvas
Country: New Zealand
Region:Marlborough
Alcohol:
What The Critics Say
Top NZ Wines of 2025: 96 Points - Outstanding
"A wine of intensity and tension, texture and length. Aromas and flavours of red berries and charry flesh, dusty clay soils and gentle savoury spice layers. The palate show the same yet with an elegant and charming personality and poise. The tannins and acidity delivery and drive and power framing the fruit that perfectly showing a softer plush plate layer. Lengthy and delicious. Even better on days 3 and 4. A wine worth your time and attention with best drinking from 2029 through 2036+."
Critic Name: Cameron Douglas MS, July 2025
Critic Score:96 POINTS OUTSTANDING
ABOUT THIS BRAND
Blank Canvas
Small Batch Fine Wines From Exceptional Single Vineyards. Top Wineries New Zealand 2023, 2024 and 2025 by The Real Review.
Based in Marlborough, it is the vinous studio of husband-and-wife team: Matt Thomson MSc, an award-winning international winemaking consultant and Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson.
“It is genuinely humbling and inspiriting for Sophie and I to receive acknowledgement like this, as we really do pour our heart and soul into these wines.” With over 45 years of collective experience in the global wine industry, Blank Canvas is the result of vast winemaking experience and the joint desire to create distinctive, fine wines that represent the very best of New Zealand. These are not mainstream wines, but high-quality and often adventurous wines from Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay. Blank Canvas crafts small-batch finewines from exceptional single vineyard sites, and they are increasingly recognised as the avant-garde of New Zealand wine.
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